I don’t mean to scoot over this fight with an IS fighter but in reality I took quite full blows and stayed on my feet.

Maybe he respected that or maybe he simply didn’t care. He got suspended, I was sent home after it and had very few bruises.

As I mentioned earlier I played for the same rugby team as Rakib and my granddad often gave him a lift to training (although I never did tell them that he was the guy that kicked my head at school).

Hhe wasn’t a bad rugby player by any standards and played full back.

He was probably one of the more gifted players but he did once get sent off up at Elgin when he clotheslined an opponent.

I’m not sure what this week’s ramblings has become as I genuinely don’t know how I feel at the loss of Rakib.

The last time I saw him in Aberdeen was on George Street and he looked happy.

I’ll never condone what he became or anything he was planning to do as a part of IS.

But it is certainly harrowing to think of people celebrating a death of someone you once knew.

Call me cynical but I also find it acute timing that this was released the same day as a court was hearing about a legal challenge of an MP and former minister who leaked a memo and pretended to know nothing about it.

I always love hearing your thoughts and thanks for the kind words about the housing market rant last week.